Joker: Folie à Deux and Madame Web Lead Worst Genre Picks for the Razzies

It’s the time of year when the hater-ade gets unleashed by film critics and commentators for the annual Razzies. The funsuck “awards” show takes cheap shots at feature film releases that didn’t fall into favor with wide audiences. For 2024, it’s putting a special focus on Madame Web and Joker: Folie a Deux. 

While neither film set the box office on fire, both have cult potential. Some of us might even agree with Quentin Tarantino’s take on Joker 2 actually being an audacious take-down of its fans and the industry at large who didn’t get the first Joker film. Lady Gaga’s performance was a particular standout; her character needed more songs, but we have a feeling the cut songs made it onto her Prince-esque Batman companion album inspired by (Har)Lee Quinn.

Among other more regrettable genre films like Eli Roth’s Borderlands, Jennifer Lopez’ Netflix vehicle Atlas, and Bill Skarsgård’s Crow reboot, we’ll still defend Madame Web. She lost her mother who died while researching spiders in the Amazon, for shame! However, Mufasa: The Lion King deserves the ire.

Here’s the list as shared by Deadline:

Worst Picture
Borderlands
Joker: Folie a Deux
Madame Web
Megalopolis
Reagan

Actor
Jack Black / Dear Santa
Zachary Levi / Harold and the Purple Crayon
Joaquin Phoenix / Joker: Folie á Deux
Dennis Quaid / Reagan
Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted

Actress
Cate Blanchett / Borderlands
Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie á Deux
Bryce Dallas Howard / Argylle
Dakota Johnson / Madame Web
Jennifer Lopez / Atlas

Supporting Actor
Jack Black (Voice Only) Borderlands
Kevin Hart / Borderlands
Shia LaBeouf / (in drag) Megalopolis
Tahar Rahim / Madame Web
Jon Voight / Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers

Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose / Argylle & Kraven the Hunter
Leslie Anne Down (as Margaret Thatcher) / Reagan
Emma Roberts / Madame Web
Amy Schumer / Unfrosted
FKA twigs / The Crow

Director
S.J. Clarkson / Madame Web
Francis Ford Coppola / Megalopolis
Todd Phillips / Joker: Folie à Deux
Eli Roth / Borderlands
Jerry Seinfeld / Unfrosted

Screen Combo
Any Two Obnoxious Characters (But Especially Jack Black) Borderlands
Any Two Unfunny “Comedic Actors” / Unfrosted
The Entire Cast of Megalopolis
Joaquin Phoenix & Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie á Deux
Dennis Quaid & Penelope Ann Miller (as “Ronnie and Nancy”) in Reagan

Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel
The Crow
Joker: Folie à Deux
Kraven the Hunter
Mufasa: The Lion King
Rebel Moon 2: The Scargiver

Screenplay
Joker: Folie à Deux
Kraven the Hunter
Madame Web
Megalopolis
Reagan

Any films above you think shouldn’t have been nominated? Or that totally deserves it?

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